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A Review of Research on Content-Based Foreign/Second Language Education in US K-12 Contexts
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Tedick, Diane J.; Wesely, Pamela M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
This review of the extant research literature focuses on research about content-based language instruction (CBI) programmes in K-12 foreign/second language education in the USA. The review emphasises studies on one-way language immersion (OWI) and two-way language immersion (TWI) programmes, which are school-based and subject matter-driven. OWI…
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peerlingual Education: A Socioeducational Reaction to Structured English Immersion
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Johnson, Eric J. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2011
This discussion emphasizes the importance of collaborative learning methods to compensate for the legal restrictions placed on school districts by Arizona's anti-bilingual education law, Proposition 203. Grounded in Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of learning, peerlingual education is described as an invaluable resource based on the linguistic…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Classroom Communication, Bilingual Education, Cooperative Learning
Evaluation of a Grade Six Late Immersion Program. ERIBC Reports.
Pfeiffer, Marie Genevieve – 1979
A report is presented of an evaluation study that was set up to monitor the effects of a bilingual program on students' progress in all subject areas, its effects on student attitudes towards the French language and culture, and the patterns of language usage in the bilingual classroom. The sample for the study consisted of three groups: a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication